Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 17:40:02 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: kern/1336: Permission for .. in NFS mounts is somewhat non-intuitive Message-ID: <199606210040.RAA29879@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/1336; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/1336: Permission for .. in NFS mounts is somewhat non-intuitive Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 17:29:47 -0700 > This is nothing special to NFS mounts, it's a very generic mount > problem. Try making your /usr 0700 in single-user mode, and go > multi-user... > > You should never make mount points anything else the 755 (or 555). > They are overshadowed with the mount permissions from the newly > mounted resource anyway, so the actual permissions of the underlying > mountpoint are largely irrelevant as long as they allow all intended > access. But.. That's basically my point - it's *not* overshadowed in the ".." case, and this is very counter-intuitive, if not an outright bug. Jordan
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